Egg-carrier.



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TE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSHUA O. MADDUX, OF BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE HALF TO FRANCIS G. MUNZER, OF BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA.

EGG-CARRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 30, 1906.

Application filed March 11, 1905- Serial No. 249.66

egg carriers or cases of the well-known kind which are collapsible that is, which can be opened up to receive a quantity of eggs and hold them separated one from the other. Such devices are generally used for carrying eggs and can of course be used for other purposes. As these carriers or cases are usually made the several partitions composing them are likely to fall apart and are also likely to become worn quickly at the ends.

The object of my invention is to produce a simple structure of this character in which the several flexible partitions have engaging slots produced in opposite edges to the end that the parts will interlock and so be prevented from getting accidentally displaced.

Another object of my invention is to bind the structure with cord in such a way as to greatly strengthen it and to prevent its disarrangement. I amaware that cords have been used as binders for such structures; but I arrange the cord in such a way that it serves the double purpose of a binder and a locking device, which prevents the parts from getting separated.

With these ends in view my invention consists of an egg-carrier the construction and arrangement of which will be hereinafter described and the novel features claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 is a detail of one of the partitions.

The carrier 10 is made up of a series of similar flexible partitions 11, which can be made of any suitable material and which are generally made of strawboard. These partitions are placed in engagement, as presently described, so that the structure can be opened up, as in Fig. 1, forming a series of cells, each adapted to receive an egg or other article, or the device can be folded flat by simply pressing opposite corners toward each other.

Each partition 11 is provided at regular intervals with slots 12, which project inward from the edge to a point beyond the center of the partition, and these slots are spaced apart a distance corresponding to the width of a cell, and they project from opposite edges. The slots are relieved or widened at their outer ends, as shown at 13, so that the partitions 11 can readily be placed in engagement with each other. When the structure is set up, the slotted portion of one partitlon is placed over the correspondingly-slotted portion of the other, as the drawings clearly show, and as the slots are alternately in opposite edges of the partitions it will be seen that the structure is thoroughly fastened together. The flexible nature of the material permits the parts to be placed in this relation without difficulty.

Each partition 1 1 is perforated at the ends, as shown at 14, to receive a cord 15, which is long enough to extend entirely around the structure, and as the parts are put together with the slots alternating, as shown in Fig. 1, it will be seen that this brings the perforation 14 of one partition 11 above the center of the structure, the next perforation below the center, and so on alternately, as the drawings clearly show. In this way it will be seen that the cord 15 not only serves to bind the entire structure, but by reason of its alternate arrangement of the perforations with respect to the center of the device it holds the partition ends securely against displace ment or separation.

It will be seen that the structure is very simple, that the parts can be readily assembled, and that the device is, for the reasons stated, exceptionally strong.

Having thus fully described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent An egg-carrier comprising interlocking partitions having inwardly-extending slots arranged alternately 011 opposite edges, and having projecting ends, and a binding-cord passing through the projecting ends in a zigzag direction, engaging each end at a point on the side of the center opposed to the slot.

JOSHUA O. MADDUX. Witnesses:

F. W. ROBINSON,

A. O. TUPMAN. 

